Parental controls

[lifebyjohn]

Hi all,

I was curious if any BitTorrent client supports parental controls. By that, I mean is there any way to allow for downloading some files while preventing inappropriate ones from being downloaded?

Thanks!

[Harold Feit]

There is no mechanism built into the protocol. It's basically impossible because of that.

[lifebyjohn]

Understood. Do you by chance know of any other clients that might offer this, or any other way to have "parental controls" over what type of torrents are downloaded?

Thanks!

[Harold Feit]

Nope. Because there's no rating system for the torrents themselves, there's no actual way to implement parental filters on them.

[lifebyjohn]

Got ya, thanks for the help!